Quote: (10-07-2013 09:20 AM)scotian Wrote:
Quote: (10-07-2013 08:27 AM)Bad Hussar Wrote:
Quote: (10-05-2013 01:55 PM)Wadsworth Wrote:
Awesome. For whatever reason, it looks like the opening salvo in the mainstream fight against feminism is going to happen in Canada.
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“There are genuine women’s issues that are far more profound, that affect all women, not just small numbers of women. The same can’t be said of men,” said Michael Laxer, a frequent political candidate for the NDP, and now the Socialist Party of Ontario.
Man the NDP sure has become a cancer.
The NDP should stick to labour and working class issues, which is their strength, and forget about gender-bating.
It's obvious they are trying a strategy that has worked for the Democratic Party in the US for the last short while. i.e. Manipulate fake gender issues in order to weight your vote with lower class women voters. Problem for the NDP is that the Democrats have only been successful with this strategy because, in addition to women, they also "race-bait", and have a decent number of black people who will, for some strange reason, vote for them whether it is in their interest or not (and IMO it usually is not).
I don't believe this strategy will succeed in Canada. While it is indeed very easy to "gender-bait" in Canada, "race-baiting" is different and will not go down well. This strategy will not give the NDP a sufficient edge to make up for how much it will ostracise many other voters. Men, older women, non single mother mothers etc.
The NDP have abandoned their old base, working class blue collar union meat heads like me and fully embraced their new base which consists of recent immigrants who want a hand out and not a hand up, environmental whack jobs, the LGBT community and the old hippy socialists. Thankfully, the NDP don't have a snow ball's chance in hell of getting elected federally, especially under that bone head Mulcair.
That's interesting. They're idiots then. I'd say Canada has a fairly strong labour movement. Which party is going to protect these interests then?